Tag: pefta 2011

Last time we saw Dumaguete-based designer Dan Dvran, he was fresh off his win from the 2011 Preview Emerging Fashion Talent Awards.  Now he’s introduced his latest collection, accompanied with a new lookbook photographed by Ber Garcia, featuring masterfully draped corsets, back-baring dresses

Travel feeds the soul, and in the case of Seph Bagasao, it was the wanderlust in him that led to his first capsule collection for his namesake brand, Bagasáo. On a recent trip to New York, Seph recalls roaming around the city,

We love it when our local designers are going global, and we love it even more when they're part of PEFTA! Since its inception in 2010, the Preview Emerging Fashion Talent Awards paved the way for a lot of budding designers who

PEFTA season just started a few weeks ago and while the new batch is busy working on their collections, we took the time out to get in touch with former finalists to see how they are doing in their design careers. From

From designers going global, let’s now talk about the former finalists who were able to score retail collaborations for their wearable designs. Read on as they talk about their PEFTA experience and find out what they have in store for us this

Preview Emerging Fashion Talent Awards, or what we affectionately call PEFTA, was launched in 2010 with a vision to help jumpstart the design careers of fashion students and newbie designers. Every year, a new breed of designers—carefully chosen by Preview editors—are given the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

Starting today, October 11, Preview will have a Preview Emerging Talent Awards (PEFTA) exhibit in the Archaeology Wing (2/F) of PowerPlant Mall, showcasing the works of the nine PEFTA designers who showed their 6-piece collections in the recently held PEFTA fashion show.The

Slim's Fashion and Arts School student Riza Bulawan views PEFTA as, first and foremost, an opportunity for learning. More than just a means to get exposure, PEFTA for her is an opportunity to challenge herself in terms of her creativity and craft,

Among the sea of 30 students from the Fashion Institute of the Philippines (FIP) that showed their graduation collections a month ago, a short 4-look collection stood out for its ringing, deceptive simplicity, clean tailoring, and the finale's sharp minimalism. Young designer

Young designer Jot Losa, despite having been seen on the runways of Philippine Fashion Week for several seasons to date, did not immediately start his career in Philippine fashion. He started in the events industry, becoming a wedding planner, event coordinator, and

Twenty-one-year old budding designer Erika Adona has some pretty big doors opening for her. During the Preview Emerging Fashion Talent Awards (PEFTA), she was chosen by legendary designer Inno Sotto to participate in next year's installation of Fashion Watch. Hand-picked from the

Among the nine designers who presented in last week's PEFTA fashion show, Xernan Orticio bagged the top prize of being featured on the January/February 2012 issue of Preview magazine. The Fashion Institute of the Philippines (FIP) graduate presented a sharply executed collection of

For this year's PEFTA presentation, we saw nine very different young designers come together to showcase their ingenious spins on classic shapes, unusual fabrics and ultimately to guide give us a glimpse of the future of Philippine Fashion. Under the hair and